Is flipping a page going to get lame? Is scrolling up and down going to become the future and feel as natural as flipping that page?
Personally I feel viewing a magazine on a computer or a tablet is taking away the whole environment of sitting down and getting comfortable instead of been hunched over at a computer looking at the screen. As if we all don't look at blaring bright screens enough.
Creativity flourishes with paper and what ever capturing tool (pen, paint, camera etc) you may prefer. It’s tangible with no technical errors. Then again it’s a great solution for the news and media if it catches on. But I am leaning more towards the photo-imaging industry within this discussion.
For example you may have a meeting with a client and he or she wants to see your images for an up coming job. Instead of having your portfolio with you, with actual pages, you pass across a tablet (Ipad). The chances are they may have not used one yet even though it may be simple as sliding your finger across the screen you will have to show them and they may make a couple mistakes. You are wasting your time and the clients.
Also the size of your photos are not going to be any bigger then A4, unless that is what you are planning on. You are not going to get a choice on a paper type like gloss, luster or matt. The closest type of paper that it is going to resemble may be gloss.
These tablets are obviously going to be awesome the first time a person lays eyes on one .But anyone or I can keep arguing about the pros and cons of a tablet or digital magazine and I think we may not get anywhere as yet.
Would like to hear everyone’s opinion .
Want to know what the iPad version of your favorite magazine will cost? A report in the Wall Street Journal leaked the prices for a few publications, but we may already know more than that.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the report, the Wall Street Journal's iPad edition will cost $17.99 per month. An advertisement-free version of Esquire may cost $2.99, which is $2 less than the newsstand price. Men's Health will charge the same $4.99 as it does for the print version, but it will also offer a “preview issue” supported by advertising for Gillette Odor Shield.
(http://www.pcworld.com/article/192441/ipad_magazine_pricing_some_answers_emerge.html)
I agree with you nicolas :)
ReplyDeleteI love being able to pick up a large A3 freshly printed image and hold it out in front of me and be able to use my eyes to scroll around the images instead of my finger on a touch screen to scroll from side to the next.
Knowing this: It was reported that Apple sold an estimated 152, 000 iPads, this weekend. Katy Huberty, a Morgan Stanley analyst, explained that Apple will sell some six million iPads during calendar 2010. Although, some reports have indicated that sales have slowed significantly -- 1000 per hour, it would be impractical for magazine companies to ignore this potentially new revenue stream.
ReplyDeleteI am certain their will be alot of people who embrace the new technology. But I guess as the digital age saw the phasing out of polaroid film, at some point we all get a little nostalgic and demand the reproduction of a classic.
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The legibility of type is culturally-based. That is, the typeface that is easiest to read is usually the one that you're most familiar with reading. For example, if you read a lot of old reports, you'll probably find a serif font such as Times more legible than a san serif such as Helvetica, but if you're more into reading cutting edge fashion mags, then maybe Myriad Pro or some other sans serif font will be more legible for you.
ReplyDeleteMy point? It's that there's an analogy here—saying that you (or I for that matter) prefer reading printed hardcopy rather than a tablet screen says as much about us as it does the particular technologies. Subsequent generations, raised with fewer printed newspapers and magazines in their homes, will likely scan and read tablets as comfortably as we read printed text and images.
Oh, and by the way, creativity flourishes when people engage with all sorts of media, not just paper. Plus printed paper can also have technical errors.
While I agree with staticrevolver that yes, type can have errors too, but there will never be a way to completely obliterate those from written media, I for one am not sold on this whole technology wave that's coming through at the moment. It's bland and sterile, and frankly, at the moment (for artistic purposes anyway) the cons far outweigh the pros.
ReplyDeleteStatistics just prove that people are mindless sheep who will buy whatever pop culture says is hot right then. I will always prefer the tactile sensation of picking up a book or a print and being able to 'adjust my viewing experience' manually.
on a side note - I had no idea that you were likely to be attracted to a certain type of font depending on what you have been exposed to the most via cultural influences? very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI do actually use Myriad Pro quite a bit.. interesting !